The Red House (1947) on Netflix
Approved19471h 40mDramaFilm-NoirMystery
Meg persuades her adoptive father Pete Morgan to hire classmate Nath Storm for chores on their isolated farm. Pete forbids the woods and the red house he says stands among the trees.
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- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb6.7/105,715 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes83%
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Plot summary
Pete Morgan, a handicapped farmer, lives with his sister Ellen and their adopted daughter Meg on an isolated farm. The family keeps to itself, and the nearby town finds them mysterious. Now a teenager, Meg persuades Pete to hire her classmate Nath Storm to help with chores. On his first evening Nath says he will take a shortcut home through the old woods, which Pete forbids anyone to enter. Pete grows agitated and warns that the woods are dangerous and that a haunted house painted red stands among the trees. Nath goes in anyway and comes back spooked by moans and yells. He returns days later and is knocked down into a stream. Nath and Meg agree to search the woods every Sunday, his only day off, for the red house.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Red House (1947)
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- Producer Sol Lesser borrowed Julie London from her contract at Universal Pictures and Rory Calhoun from Selznick Pictures. The film became a career breakthrough for London, who had until then been known mainly as a singer.
- Composer Miklós Rózsa wrote mysterious cues for the theremin, played by Samuel Hoffman, on a score that echoes his music for Spellbound and The Lost Weekend, both of which also leaned on the instrument.
